The First Friday in February was FROSTY in First Grade!

We all had a great time building snowmen from "Texas Snow"!  After we Texans had the rare opportunity to build a snowman of our own, we wrote, "How to Build a Snowman".  Fun Times!

Valentine Love

We celebrated our love for each other on Thursday, February 14 with a pizza lunch and great Minute to Win-It Games.  Thanks to Mrs. Wiser for organizing the good times!  Thank you to Mrs. Williams for picking up the pizza!

We Are Rockin' in Our School Shoes!

What an AMAZING beginning to a school year!  We have already been hard at work looking for patterns in both numbers and words, learning about density and polarity, force and motion, and getting to know each other as a family of learners.

This Friday the Book Buddies will be participating in O.R.E.O Day 2012 . A great big thanks to Jen Wagner for continuing this exciting project for 14 years!

Welcome Back!

Its time to begin the 2012-2013 school year at Tarver Elementary!  The opportunities that await our classroom family are endless! 

Meet the Teacher night is Thursday from 6-7 p.m.
School starts Monday, August 27th!
Go TIGERS!

O.R.E.O. Day 2011 SUCCESS!

Estimating, Predicting, Counting,  Exploring, Discovering, Hypothesizing, Concluding...

Just a few things we did on...

O.R.E.O. Day 2011!

We began our festivities by asking, "How many cookies are there in a standard package of Nabisco Oreo cookies?"

 Then, we got down to it!
Stacking the cookies!   We asked, "How high can we build a tower of Nabisco Oreo cookies before it tumbles?"

We have some pictures on our website here, but check out these fun vidoes, too!

 

O.R.E.O. Day is Coming!

This Friday, September 30th our Book Buddies will participate in The O.R.E.O. Project 2011!  This is a wonderful on-line project started by a wonderful teacher in California.  Click on the link to the information website for more information!

Math Menu

We began Math Menus this week, and the Firsties loved it.  Now, to work on the noise level!  Enjoy these pics of the '5 Tower Game' and 'Stars' (Math Solutions).  To get us started, we found our Math Buddy and partnered up to choose any activity.  This next week, the Firsties will be held responsible for getting all of the activities done. 

Spelling

So, last Friday was our first spelling test of the year.  It was AWESOME!  There were NO TEARS!  Everyone just took it in stride, and actually seemed to enjoy the process.  First graders always feel like "Big Kids" when they take out their carboard offices and get their official spelling test paper. 

Here is the list of our words for next week, along with our Focus Words.  We do not test on the focus words for spelling, but they are the high frequency words that we are working on that week. 

not       hop

got       stop

spot      dog

mop       hogs

top       fog

Focus Words:  the, and, can, you, to